Food crises and distress migration will continue to plague the African continent in the decades ahead unless massive investments are made to make the region’s agriculture and food systems more resilient.

For 15 years, I had lived in a small village in southeastern China. We did not recognize malnutrition when we saw it, because to us it looked normal. We were all malnourished.

Achieving the Sustainable Development Goals and the pledge of the 2030 Agenda to leave no one behind requires collaborative ways of working, such accelerating and scaling cross-sectoral action and policy coherence.

Women’s empowerment is a process that includes increases in intrinsic agency (power within); instrumental agency (power to); and collective agency (power with).

Taking a food systems approach is a promising strategy for improving diets.

Food is critical to human and planetary health, yet food is currently threatening both people and planet.

Irrigation has been, and will remain, instrumental in addressing water security (Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 6), food insecurity (SDG 2) and poverty (SDG 1) goals.

Para alcanzar los Objetivos de Desarrollo Sostenible (ODS) en el espacio rural de América Latina y el Caribe es cuando menos necesario responder las siguientes interrogantes: ¿Cuál es el marco de políticas macroeconómicas y sectoriales que pueden

2018 was a somber and unpredictable year, not only for food and nutrition security, but also for global political stability and international development.

Given the need for valid measures of women’s empowerment to monitor SDG5 and design advantages of pro-WEAI, an assessment of its measurement properties is warranted.

Examining developments in global agricultural production systems, climate change, and food security using IFPRI's IMPACT model.

As participants at the Ecosystem Inception Meeting convened by the Global Dairy Platform and held in Chicago in June 2016, we have identified some concepts as central to the study of food systems science.

The Internet of Things (IoT) is a novel paradigm shift in information technology (IT) sector. The sensor data visualization for agriculture has a great opportunity for mobile technology.

Water and nutrition are linked in multiple ways, but few of these interlinkages are well understood. What is, for example, the exact relationship between water pollution and health or between water resource management and nutrition?

Hunger and undernutrition are two of the greatest scourges facing our planet today. We can eliminate both, and we can do so by 2025—which will also help end extreme poverty and will contribute to achieving multiple Sustainable Development Goals.

After reviewing the complexity and challenges in building food systems to help achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), this article presents some suggestions for strengthening specific aspects of trade and investment policies.

More and better quality private sector investment in food systems will be needed for the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals.